Hi

The problem here is that this isn't a proper datacenter but just a bunch of adapted containers stacked on each other.

On top of that they use exotic cooling stuff, such as free cooling (wind tunnels) and water cooling on servers...

https://www.ovh.com/blog/water-cooling-from-innovation-to-disruption-part-i/

https://images.google.com/search?q=ovh+water+cooling  (see images)

In anyways, they are in fact innovative, but i also believe that most users didn't knew exactly what they were buying...  and one shouldn't compare apples with pineapples :-)

We should be happy that there were no human injuries.   About the data/losses/etc, WYGIWYP applies  (what you get is what you pay).  I am sure they are pretty much protected by their T&C's (that no one reads).

cheers
/nuno


On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 16:45 +0530, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
Photos coming out look scary - https://twitter.com/hapticmusing/status/1369601127520464897

Not sure when the Internet community saw the case of such a massive fire which destroyed the whole datacenter. 
Have heard of minor cases here in the past and there & were mostly contained to few racks/DC rooms etc. Based on datacenters I have seen - pretty much all of them have those big fancy fire doors to contain fire in a give "DC room". Gotta see what report comes out eventually about the engineering failure.